Harry Bernard Cross
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Harry Bernard Cross, better known as Ben Cross, was a British actor renowned for his role in the Oscar-winning film "Chariots of Fire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Bernard Cross canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8391478 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Bernard Cross Context triple: [Ben Cross, birthName, Harry Bernard Cross]
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A.
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Andrew Crocker-Harris is a strict, emotionally repressed classics teacher at an English public school whose personal and professional crises form the tragic core of Terence Rattigan’s play "The Browning Version."
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B.
Raymond Collishaw
Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
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C.
Ivor Lombard
Ivor Lombard is a fictional character from Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Crome Yellow," representing one of the eccentric figures in its country-house social circle.
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D.
Martin Henry Glynn
Martin Henry Glynn was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of New York in the early 20th century.
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E.
Alexander Scourby
Alexander Scourby was an American actor and narrator best known for his distinctive baritone voice in film, television, and especially audiobook and Bible recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Bernard Cross Target entity description: Harry Bernard Cross, better known as Ben Cross, was a British actor renowned for his role in the Oscar-winning film "Chariots of Fire."
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A.
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Andrew Crocker-Harris is a strict, emotionally repressed classics teacher at an English public school whose personal and professional crises form the tragic core of Terence Rattigan’s play "The Browning Version."
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B.
Raymond Collishaw
Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
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C.
Ivor Lombard
Ivor Lombard is a fictional character from Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Crome Yellow," representing one of the eccentric figures in its country-house social circle.
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D.
Martin Henry Glynn
Martin Henry Glynn was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of New York in the early 20th century.
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E.
Alexander Scourby
Alexander Scourby was an American actor and narrator best known for his distinctive baritone voice in film, television, and especially audiobook and Bible recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Ben Cross ⓘ |
| appearedIn | Chariots of Fire ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Variety Club Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-12-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-08-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Cross ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Harry ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Bernard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Harry Bernard Cross ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole | Harold Abrahams ⓘ |
| notableWork | Chariots of Fire ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| performedIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Austria
ⓘ
Vienna ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–2020 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Harry Bernard Cross Description of subject: Harry Bernard Cross, better known as Ben Cross, was a British actor renowned for his role in the Oscar-winning film "Chariots of Fire."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.